Vehicle-seat



N0. fil4 28l. Patented Nov. l5, I898. .1. s. AUSTIN.

VEHICLE SEAT. (A iication filed July 1, 1898.!

(No Model.)

ATENT ICE? JOHN S. AUSTIN, RAOINE, IVISCONSIN.

VEHICLE-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,281, dated November 15, 1898.

Application filed July 1 1898- Serial No. 684,962. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN S. AUSTIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Seats and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has especial reference to that form of vehicle-seat known to the trade as a lazy-back; and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view representing one of my improved seats in position for use. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail sectional views drawn to an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the vehicle-seat proper, of ordinary construction, and B is the lazy-back. This latter, like the seat A, is made of wood and of a proper curve or shape to fit snugly upon the upper surface of the back a of the seat A.

In shipping vehicle-seats when the lazyback is permanently secured to the lower part of the seat a comparatively few can be packed into a car, for example, whereas by the knockdown construction illustrated and about to be described a great saving in space, and consequentlyin cost of freight, is accomplished.

O 0 represent metallic castings having lugs or offsets c c projecting therefrom, these castings (which I term guide-irons) being in-.

clined to fit against theinclined back a of the seat A and terminating in substantially horizontally-projecting feet Z7, which rest upon the bottom or horizontal part of the seat A, and these feet, as well as the lower portions of the said guide-irons O, are formed with holes therethrough to receive screws d d, whereby said irons are secured to the bottom and back of the seat A, and the upper portions of the said guide-irons O are preferably provided with holes therethrough registering with holes through the back roof the seat A to receive the shanks of headed bolts e, passed therethrough and held by nuts f for greater security.

The lazy-back B is provided with irons D D, which I shall call the lazy-back irons, and

these have practically vertical upper ends perforated to receive the screws 9 g, whereby they are secured to the front face of the said lazy-back l3, and obliquely-inclined lower ends, which slip under the lugs or offsets c c, projecting from the guide-irons C O, fitting snugly between the lugs c c and the front face of the back a of the seat A.

Each end of the lazy-back B is grooved out on its front face, as shown at h, said grooves being covered by the nut-plates E E, the outer rear ends of said plates being increased in thickness, as best shown at i, Fig. 3, and tapped with screw threads to receive the screw-threaded upper ends j of the metallic arm-rails F F, the nut-plates E E being secured to the lazy-back B by rivets k 7c. The arm-rails F F are curved metallic rods, whose lower ends mare bent downward and reduced in diameter and then screw-threaded, as shown at n, the metal just above this reduced end being preferably somewhat expanded to form a collar 0.

G G are castings, which I term the seatarm irons, and are double-angle irons, the upper parts 19 p resting upon and projecting outwardly beyond the top edge of the ends q q of the seat A, to which seat ends the said irons are attached, as by screws 1' r, while the lower portions of the said seat-arm irons G con sist of feet 8, similarly attached, as by screws if t, to the upper surface of the bottom of the seat A. The upper parts p of the said irons G are perforated near their outer ends to receive the reduced lower ends 12 of the armrails F, the collars o resting on said parts 19 above the said perforations, and when in place, as described, nuts a are screwed on the said lower ends 12, thereby firmly securing the parts in place and effectively preventing the removal of the lazy-back B without first removing said nuts it.

It will be understood that the seat and lazyback are designed to be upholstered or covered with any suitable material and that such material and whatever cushions are employed will properly conceal the described irons, provision being made in such covering to allow the lower parts of the irons D to slip to place back of the lugs c of the irons G in the manner already described.

If desired for greater security in any instance, the lower ends of the lazy-back irons D may be provided with holes therethrough, whereby said ends may be secured to the back a of the seat A by screws 1), as shown in Fig. 1, this being done, of course, before the seat and lazy-back are upholstered or covered.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a vehicle-seat the combination with the seat proper of a removable lazy-back, recessed at each end thereof and resting upon the back of said seat, guide-irons secured to the lower seat-back and havinglaterally-projecting lugs or ofisets, nuts secured in the said recesses of the lazy-back, irons secured to and projecting downward from said lazyback for engagement beneath the said lugs JOHN S. AUSTIN.

\Vitnesses:

E. W. MARCHER, O. H. WASHBURN. 

